The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-11-17


Four of the Anarchists were duly hanged
last Friday. and the sentence Of TWO commuted.
The two who exchanged the gallows for the
pententiary for life are Michael Schwab aud
Samuel Fielder, and those executed were Au.
gust Spies, Albert R Parsons. Ado,ph Fischer
and George Engel They made no dying
speeches, though Parsons attempted q harangue,
two Of them cried "Hurrah for Anarchy" the
trap was sprung and they were pronounced
dead in fifteen minutes. They were buried on
Sunday, an additional corpse being that of
Louis Lingg, who escaped the gallows and
died by his own bomb Thursday night About
five thousand persons were IN the procession,
which included many delegations from vari-
GUS labor organizations, including Knights OF
Labor, Turn Versin societies. etc. The pro-
cession was almost entirely composed Of ter
eigners Some ncendiary speeches were made
at the cemetery, but no disturbance occurred
there nor in the city, for from the time it was
announced that the condemned men must
hang the authorities were SO vigilan,, and there
was 30 formidable show of armed force, that
the boldest of the evil-spirited dared not at
tempt riotous demonstration.
was committed on the 4,h of May, 1886 For
days the riots incident II the great labor strike
for eight hours work per day had convulscd
Chicago, and after a conflict al the Mccormick
Reaper works between the police and the rioters
in which several of the latter were killed, Spies
Issued that 90 Revenge Circular which called
out the Anarchist organization TO slaugh-
ter the police and all opponents of their
views A mob assembled at the Haymarket which
Spies, Parsons and Fielding hsrangued. and
which the police officials commanded to dispense
and marched down seven Companies of IT'S
policemen, in platoons reaching from cub to
| curb, 10 enforce their order. As they approach
ed the wagoa which served as the speakers
| stand the fatal b'mh was thrown, and fel. be-
| tween the second and third companies Of police,
| with the effect which is thus described There
| was binding fash, an explosion that was
| heard two miles and deep, prolonged roar,
| echong from the buil,lings-then appalling
screams and volley If pistol shots. The smoke
lifted, and the ground appeared covered with
slain-but only for an instant Two whole
| companies of police had been thrown TO the,
| ground, of whom one, Matthias J. began, was
Instantly killed SIX MORALLY wounded and six
| others hurt in various degrees. Bat the police
rallied at once and with the hrmness and steadi-
ness of veterans they sprnng forward, emptying
their evolvers into the flying crowd as they
went, and following their Shots with their clubs
they cleared the street in less than three minutes
| of all save the dead and wounded From alley
gutter and hallway came deep groans and curses
II I 10 tod hat &c,
killed and about $50 wounded. An Anarchis,
named Kistler was killed by the bomb. Besides
Officer began killed outright, tho policemen
who died of their wounds were ]. J. Barrett
George Miller. Timothy Flanhan, Mi chael She
han, Thomas Reddin and Neil Hansen"
On the day. after the tragedy every anarchi 8
den in the city was raded and many suspected
persons arrested, and of the number six of those
eventually convicted of active participation ir
| the crime were put tral-the seventh being
Parsons, who euded arrest until the trial began
when he surrendered himself The best ega
talent was employed by the prisoners, and th
case occupied five weeks in the Chicago court
was appealed 10 the Supreme Court of the State
and then carried 10 the Supreme Court of tn,
United States, the judgment of the lower cour
being affirmed at each appeal, and the lesson 0
condemnation Of socialism and anarchism NOR,
deeply impressed by the result of each, until las
Friday the GROWING act Of justice indicated tn
power of American law. Herr Most, "Captail
Black" and other leading rascals OF the anarch
ical crew, are proclaiming the marlyrdom Of tn
legally defunct, but this does not do away thu
comforting fact that there are four less Of then
to be hanged than there were week ago